Any honest conversation about engaging young people must address discrimination against young people.

Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

For every young person living on the streets tonight, there are many at home zoning out inside their homes through video games, and even more who disengage from school. These are direct effects of internalized discrimination based on their age.

Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.

Dropping out of school is the ultimately caused by discrimination against young people in schools.

Adultism is not always harmful-but it is always real.